ARTventure in August is a month-long creative journey through the world’s most iconic galleries, masterpieces, and muses — with a playful twist. Each of the 31 daily prompts invites you to imagine yourself inside the artwork. Sketch, paint, collage or doodle — whatever your style, these prompts are your invitation to make art history yours!
Here is a drag and print version:
And here it is:
1. Undulating at the Uffizi
Strike a muse-like pose and let your limbs flow like drapery in a Renaissance fresco.
2. Bawling with Birth of Venus
Draw yourself overcome with emotion, standing soggy-eyed before Botticelli’s seashell superstar.
3. Pondering Primavera
Sketch your inner thoughts as you drift through an enchanted garden of eternal spring.
4. Marvelling at Mars and Venus
Capture your reaction to the god of war snoring while Venus smirks — romance or roast?
5. Tiptoeing through the Tate
Did you just miss the last exit bell? Sneak through the contemporary masterpieces, wide-eyed and a little worried!
6. Lollygoggling at the Louvre
Home of the Mona Lisa and a few other paintings.
7. Peeking at the Pre-Raphaelites
Draw yourself amidst flowing hair and dreamy stares.
8. Fainting at the Feet of David
Overwhelmed by Michelangelo’s marble magnificence?!
9. Blushing with Botticelli’s Graces
Tangle yourself into their swirling dance!
10. Sketching with da Vinci
Peek into his journal- what inventions do you see?
11. Can-Canning with Toulouse
High kicks and higher spirits!
12. Lounging with Lempicka
Sculpt your silhouette in sharp Deco lines and lipstick fierceness.
13. Reclining with Renoir
Stretch out in sun-dappled garden bliss, maybe with cake.
14. Voguing with Vermeer
Turn the light, the pearls, and the silence into a runway moment.
15. Pinch Your-Self with Picasso
Twist your features, rearrange your face — a Cubist selfie!
16. Musing with Modigliani
Elongate your neck and your imagination mid-poetic sigh.
17. Flouncing with Frida at Casa Azul
18. Sighing in the Sistine Chapel
Gaze up to that heavenly ceiling drama.
19. Twisting with Ingres
An over-the-shoulder pose with a neck that’s just a little too long.
20. Gawking at Guernica
Imagine your reaction if you stumbled into Picasso’s most intense canvas — mid-scream or mid-sketch?
21. Sunbathing with the Sunflowers
Soak up Van Gogh’s golden glow — are you one of the flowers, or just visiting?
22.Wading into Waterlilies
Step into Monet’s pond (literally!) — draw the scene from inside the swirl.
23. Partying in a Piero della Francesca Painting
Geometric halos and solemn stares — what happens if someone cracks a joke?
24. Posing with the Muses of Gauguin
Reclining Polynesian goddess, surrounded by parrots, patterns, and maybe a coconut or two.
25. Wandering with the Woman with a Parasol
Hold tight to your parasol and let the wind ruffle your skirt.
26. Hiding in a Hieronymus Bosch
Find yourself tucked into a surreal world of flying fish and mischievous snails.
27. Spinning in a Starry Night
Who snuck snacks into the hallowed halls? Oh, it’s you with crumbs and a sketchpad.
28. Daydreaming with Degas’ Dancers
Capture yourself backstage with the ballerinas — are you stretching or snoozing?
29. Painting with the Powdered Shadows of Laurencin
Use her signature shades: dusty rose, dove grey, baby blue, and ballet slipper white.
30. Reposing with Raphael’s cherubs
Halos slightly askew, wings ruffled — virtue with a side of mischief.
31. Teleporting through the Timeline of Art
Mash-up your favorite moments from the month into one glorious time-traveling ARTventure